Physical Description
x, 330 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
From light to heavy duty
"Precision bombing will win the war"
Someone had blundered
Rumors of war
School of the soldier
Unread books on a shelf
Chickenshit, an anaotomy
Drinking far too much, copulating too little
Type-casting
The ideological vacuum
Accentuate the positive
High-mindedness
With one voice
Deprivation
Compensation
Reading in wartime
Fresh idiom
"The real war will never get in the books".
ISBN
0195065778
9780195065770 : PAP
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-319) and index.
From light to heavy duty -- "Precision bombing will win the war" -- Someone had blundered -- Rumors of war -- School of the soldier -- Unread books on a shelf -- Chickenshit, an anaotomy -- Drinking far too much, copulating too little -- Type-casting -- The ideological vacuum -- Accentuate the positive -- High-mindedness -- With one voice -- Deprivation -- Compensation -- Reading in wartime -- Fresh idiom -- "The real war will never get in the books".
